half-awake
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Rochelle begged a half-awake Keona to let her brush the girl’s hair.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2023
The next day I would stumble into the clinic half-awake, and scientists would stick electrodes on my scalp.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2022
"I was drifting in that half-asleep, half-awake place when I sensed a presence in the room," she wrote in her book.
From Fox News • Jan. 24, 2022
Since any half-awake journalist would know that our West End Avenue address was no office building, we thought putting "Suite 7C" with that address on FAIR's stationery was an open joke, rather than a lie.
From Salon • Jul. 26, 2021
Finally, he slept, then sat up, half-awake, following an unconscious prompting of fear.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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